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After my 300km roundtrip yesterday outside Manila, here's how the latest mod fared...
1. The annoying rubber to metal rubbing is totally gone. Allelujah! managed to take dips on the road flat out this time unlike before when those same dips would cause the awfully irritating noise.
2. There's still some rubbing with the tire and the plastic edge of the bumper, if not the edge of the second srewhead. But these were nowhere as jarring as before the grinding modification. Perhaps using 205/45/17s could be a future option?
Ken,
Ask our turbo guy what his wheel offset is... if he doesn't know, it's probably embossed at the back of the wheel. I don't think it would be practical for you to use such a low offset number... that will most likely result in more fender rubbing because the wheel and tire will be sticking out too much.
Regarding upper wheel well rubbing, I don't think it will... the overall diameter of 195/50/16 is about .1 inch smaller than my set-up and I don't experience rubbing inside the wheel well. But you might experience that right rear fender rub more than what you are experiencing now mainly because of the wheel offset. hehe If you can get a wheel offset of +45, that should be just right with those 16s you're planning. Problems with +45 offset for the front can easily be remedied by adding wheel spacers
Don't you want 205/45/16s?
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